 Member of the CoffeeCup Software Team A telnet account is just another name for Unix/Linux userid. You need at least one to be able to upload/download your cgi scripts and various files. When you sign up with Artmaker, you receive a userid and password. You may ask for more than one such userid. Regular accounts include one; additional setups are available for a 15.00 one time setup charge. Each telnet account has its own separate home directory but shares the same www and ftp directories. Multiple telnet accounts are useful when more than one staff member will be working on the domain. You may wish to set it up so that different accounts have different security levels. For example, you could make it so only one telnet account could access your listserver data. For those of you wishing sophisticated access control, we will be happy to create additional groups for your domain. That may not make sense to those of you who are not Unix veterans, but it can allow you to have one account able to access only one directory while your others can access all directories, including that one. Some of the programs available at the shell prompt are mail, a primitive email program, pine and elm, more powerful email programs, ftp, to FTP onto other sites, telnet, to telnet onto other sites, lynx, a text-only WWW browser, pico, an easy to use text editor, vi, a not so easy to use (but standard) text editor, and in general a pretty complete POSIX environment. At the shell prompt, type man and the name of the program to get instructions for that program online. If your problem is not knowing the name of the program, try apropos subject. (i.e. apropos mail.) A telnet account on our system is not a license to use our machines as your personal PC. Please do not treat it as such. Login, do your work and logout. People abusing the telnet facilities will have their telnet privelidges terminated. Also keep in mind that SPAMING or sending unsolicited bulk e-mail from our servers or even referencing our servers is not allowed. Keep in mind, most site contruction and modification can be done using FTP. The difference is in doing things locally on your hard-drive, sending the HTML and graphics to your Webspace, and replacing them with updates as needed. With Telnet you have the ability to do changes in 'real-time'. In fact, there is very little site construction you cannot do with FTP so don't worry about Telnet unless you need it. If you are using Windows, a telnet client is built right in. Just choose File>Run>type in TELNET or Start>Run>type in TELNET. You can also search on TELNET at: To use Telnet, you will need to be familiar with some Unix commands. You log into Telnet with the same username and password as your FTP account and you will land in your home directory. When you need to edit a file on-line, after logging into our machine, type pico filename to edit the file called filename. Pico is the easiest editor availible to learn. Text that you type is inserted at the cursor. Your terminal's arrow keys should move the cursor through the file. Some commands that you will need are printed at the bottom of the screen. The keys to press are presented as '^X'. This long-standing shorthand in the computer world means the same as Control-X, in other words, hold down the Control or Ctrl key on your keyboard and type an 'x'. Another Introduction and some Help to Telnet is located:
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